Phoenix Web Development (Self-published / Packt)

DevotionGeo · May 6, 2018, 12:56pm

By Brandon Richey

Learn to build a high-performance functional prototype of a voting web application from scratch using Elixir and Phoenix

Phoenix is a modern web development framework that is used to build API’s and web applications. It is built on Elixir and runs on Erlang VM which makes it much faster than other options. With Elixir and Phoenix, you build your application the right way, ready to scale and ready for the increasing demands of real-time web applications.

This book covers the basics of the Phoenix web framework, showing you how to build a community voting application, and is divided into three parts. In the first part, you will be introduced to Phoenix and Elixir and understand the core terminologies that are used to describe them. You will also learn to build controller pages, store and retrieve data, add users to your app pages and protect your database. In the second section you will be able to reinforce your knowledge of architecting real time applications in phoenix and not only debug these applications but also diagnose issues in them. In the third and final section you will have the complete understanding of deploying and running the phoenix application and should be comfortable to make your first application release

By the end of this book, you’ll have a strong grasp of all of the core fundamentals of the Phoenix framework, and will have built a full production-ready web application from scratch.

What You Will Learn

Learn Phoenix Framework fundamentals and v1.3’s new application structure

Build real-time applications with channels and presence

Utilize GenServers and other OTP fundamentals to keep an application stable

Track users as they sign in and out of chat with Phoenix’s built-in presence functionality

Write your own database interaction code that is safe, bug-free, and easy to work with

Explore testing and debugging methodologies to understand a real software development lifecycle for a Phoenix application

Deploy and run your Phoenix application in production

Authors

Brandon Richey is a software engineer and Elixir enthusiast who has written a large number of popular Elixir tutorials. He has been doing professional and hobby programming projects spanning topics from healthcare, personal sites, recruiting, and game development for nearly 20 years! When not programming, Brandon enjoys spending time with his family, playing (and making) video games and working on his drawings and paintings!

DevotionGeo · May 6, 2018, 1:28pm

@diamondgfx writes at his Medium blog about React, Ember, Rails and Phoenix. He is a talented developer.

Did anyone already read this book? Any reviews?

diamondgfx · May 6, 2018, 2:20pm

Hello everyone! I’m the author of this book! I’m really excited about it as this has been a topic I’ve been very passionate about for a long time! (It’s also my first book so the concept of me having a book out there is completely bananas!)

If you read the book and ever have any questions about the material reach out to me here or on Twitter; I’d love to know what you all think!